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Carlo Ancelotti was infamously dismissed in a corridor and André Villas-Boas
may as well have been. Unlike his predecessor, Villas-Boas was permitted to
return to London as manager of the club, but it was clear he had reached the
end of this particular journey when he faced the media in a cramped corridor
on Saturday evening.

The transformation from the smooth, assured young man who swept into Stamford
Bridge last summer has been extraordinary, with eight months in one of the
most difficult jobs in football adding at least ten years to his previously
boyish complexion. Villas-Boas looked and sounded